Arthur Dimmesdale Meets the Pardoner

Author / Editor
Thompson, Mary Kay.

Title
Arthur Dimmesdale Meets the Pardoner

Published
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 104-11.

Description
Identifies parallels between Chaucer's Pardoner and Arthur Dimmesdale of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," without claiming influence.

Alternative Title
Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations